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Promote the Recovery of the Endangered Gulf Sturgeon ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, recovery, fish, endangered, habitat )

Cher
- 179 days ago - forcechange.com
The gulf sturgeon is an ancient fish, with its ancestral branches reaching back to the age of the dinosaurs. However, recent environmental conditions have led to increased risk of extinction for these prehistoric fish. Gulf sturgeon are migratory and
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Sign for More Fish - Anyone Can Sign So Please Do
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, animals, animalwelfare, conservation, death, endangered, environment, extinction, fish, habitat, humans, protection, sadness, slaughter, wildlife, overfishing )

Gillian
- 179 days ago - e-activist.com
OUR SEAS ARE IN CRISIS AND EUROPE'S FISHING LAW NEEDS CHANGING WE WANT THE EU TO: End overfishing Stop wasteful practices Give our fishing industry a future Protect our seas
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ACTION ALERT: Prohibit Transportation, Sale, Purchase or Possession of Genetically Engineered Fish! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: salmon, factory farming, fish, legalisation, protection, laws )

Simone
- 204 days ago - all-creatures.org
[Ed. Note: This is an animal rights issue; genetically engineered fish suffer immensely, as well as causing horrible problems for fish in the wild when they "escape" from their "fish farms" which they do.]
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to Protect Menhaden! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: menhaden, oceans, fish, legalisation, protection, enviornment )

Simone
- 205 days ago - change.org
Menhaden have been called "the most important fish in the sea" and it's true--they are the most important fish for sustaining the Atlantic ecosystem. Fish we love to eat, like striped bass, and birds of prey, like the osprey,
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Speak Out to Save the River Herring! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: fish, herring, AnimalWelfare, conservation, ethics, habitat, humans, killing, protection, wildlife, suffering )

Lindsey
- 212 days ago - secure3.convio.net
In August 2011, the Natural Resources Defense Council petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to list alewife and blueback herring as "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). These fish, collectively known as "river her
30 comments
Tool-Using Fish Caught on Tape [Video]
Animals  (tags: fish, tool using fish, Palau, orange-dotted tuskfish )

Nancy
- 226 days ago - blogs.scientificamerican.com
This is apparently the first video documenting tool-use in a fish, and the fourth known example of the behavior in these animals. Bernardi observed the fish-an orange-dotted tuskfish (Choerodon anchorago), which is a type of wrasse-in shallow water off...
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Protect Our Salmon Before It's Too Late ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, fish, salmon, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 274 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Sign this petition show your support for a solution that benefits fish, fishermen, farmers, energy producers, and local communities - before it's too late.
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Make Criminals Pay: Fight Seafood Fraud ACTION
Animals  (tags: wildlife, fish, seafood, protection, environment )

Nancy
- 283 days ago - act.oceana.org
Recent studies have found that seafood may be mislabeled as often 70 percent of the time - which means you could be feeding your family unhealthy, illegal, unsustainable fish and not even know it.
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Tongue Makes the Difference in How Fish and Mammals Chew
Animals  (tags: Tongue, Mammals Chew, Fish, Research )

Nancy
- 326 days ago - sciencedaily.com
New research from Brown University shows that fish and mammals chew differently. Fish use tongue muscles to thrust food backward, while mammals use tongue muscles to position food for grinding.
3 comments
ACTION ALERT: Stop the Sale of Nurse Sharks to Pet Stores! - PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: pet stores, wildlife, nurse sharks, exploitated, cruelty, suffering, fish )

Simone
- 369 days ago - gopetition.com
By keeping fish for almost 30 years, we have witnessed first hand the thousands of creatures that are treated with It's just a fish attitude, and found out they are not just a fish. They have personality. They think, they feel and they have individual
51 comments
Sea Shepherd Vows to Tackle Tuna Fishing Off Libya.
Animals  (tags: fish, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society )

Claudia
- 375 days ago - tvnz.co.nz
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is brushing off fears of being caught up the conflict in Libya when they head there next month to save bluefin tuna...
10 comments
Hygienic Sharks Visit Cleaner Fish
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, thresher shark, fish, animal behavior, study, research, humans, wildanimals, wildlife, environment, animalwelfare )

Yrna
- 433 days ago - presstv.ir
A recent study suggests that thresher sharks are very hygienic and repeatedly visit undersea mountains to get rid of their parasites and dead skin. The predators swam slowly around tropical seamounts so that cleaner fish could nibble off their parasites.
22 comments
UK Shark Fin Ban - TAKE ACTION
Animals  (tags: animals, shark, shark fins, shark finning, fish, marine animals, United Kingdom, humans, shark fin trade, killing, ethics, protection, environment, animalcruelty, animalrights, animalwelfare )

Yrna
- 445 days ago - gopetition.com
Shark finning is the barbaric act of removing the fins from a live shark and then dumping the fish back into the oceans where it suffers an agonising death. The fins are then used in the production of Shark Fin Soup.
41 comments
Protect Sharks in the Bahamas - TAKE ACTION
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, fish, marine animals, wildanimals, bahamas, shark finning, shark fishing, protection, environment, animalcruelty, animalrights, animalwelfare )

Yrna
- 448 days ago - change.org
The Bahamas is the shark diving capital of the world. In the 1990s, a ban on longline commercial fishing provided the ocean predators - and the divers who love to swim with them - a bit of a haven around the islands. But now there's a new threat to sharks
46 comments
Little Fish Exploding in Number, Models Show
Animals  (tags: fish, oceans, environment, animals, wildlife, news )

Mary Patr
- 453 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
There are still plenty of fish in the sea--they're just the little ones, new models suggest...
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